War in Ukraine: Russia suffers massive overnight attacks

War in Ukraine: Russia suffers massive overnight attacks

a number of things have been going on in the last 24 hours in various parts of the uh Ukraine War uh up in the north the Russians have continued with their push uh against against the area opposite kiv and they’ve made some progress in two areas one to towards um an area here which they would like to get in into artillery range of KV at lipy and the other one at V Chan Kia where if they could break out they could move further south but so far the ukrainians have actually held that push mainly by redeploying forces from the south in order to combat that push in the north so not much has changed there but it is actually straining the ukrainians a little bit however the ukrainians have hit back in their own way and overnight there were a whole series of attacks in different parts mainly in sevastopol um at the air base at sevastopol itself at Ro Nova risk which is one of the Russian Naval bases in the Kadar region and at several oil refineries in Kadar which is having quite a big effect on the Russian petrochemical uh economy so the ukrainians themselves have been making an effort to hit back and also in belgrod and while all that has been going on President Putin has been in China with XI Jin ping of course they make all the right statements about their unbridgeable um uh um arrangements and their permanent Alliance but in reality what they’re talking about is how far xiin ping is prepared to back the economic need needs of President Putin as he continues with his war in Ukraine

Kharkiv came under heavy attack again last night but Russian President Vladimir Putin says instead of capturing Ukraine’s second city he wants to establish a buffer zone.

He said Russian forces launched attacks in the region in response to Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s Belgorod region.

Also, a purported Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an oil refinery in Krasnodar, Russia.

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